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Past Wordle answer Possible answer Accepted guess B tier opener

SPIRE

Yes, SPIRE was the Wordle answer on January 15, 2023 (Wordle #575).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.5% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /spaɪə//ˈspaɪ.ə//ˈspaɪ.ɚ/

Noun

A young shoot of a plant; a spear.

Noun

Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

Verb

to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.

Verb

To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: January 15, 2023 (#575).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How SPIRE performs as a guess

SPIRE is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 87.1% of games, misses completely in 12.9%, and leaves about 106 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #1,001 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.60 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

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Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

S___E S in the 1st position and E in the 5th position S__R_ S in the 1st position and R in the 4th position _P__E P in the 2nd position and E in the 5th position

Try next

TONAL LEANT CAROL EATER TIDAL EAGLE
Words starting with S Words ending with E

First-turn measures

5.37 Entropy (bits)
106 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.5% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 97% of evaluated openers
0.57 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How SPIRE performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.60 Avg guesses
99.9% Win rate
0.73 Volatility
#1,001 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, SPIRE ranks #1,001 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
96
3 guesses
970
4 guesses
1,083
5 guesses
182
6 guesses
20
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
2 vowels
Common:
EIRS

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
87%
Green tile
41%
All gray
13%

Example solver route

R O A T E
P R I S M
S P I R E

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches SPIRE in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

129 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

305
188
159
152
130
113
99
64
58
53
53
48
45
34
33
31
30
29
28
27
27
27
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing SPIRE:

13% chance
Suggested:
TONAL
8% chance
Suggested:
LEANT
7% chance
Suggested:
CAROL

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

12.9% →
TONAL 5.78 bits
8.0% →
LEANT 5.26 bits
6.7% →
CAROL 5.12 bits
6.4% →
EATER 4.21 bits
5.5% →
TIDAL 4.81 bits
4.8% →
EAGLE 4.48 bits
4.2% →
COALY 4.70 bits
2.7% →
COALY 4.23 bits
2.5% →
BLAST 4.52 bits
2.2% →
COATE 4.00 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for SPIRE; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

S1P3I1R1E1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 8 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.